mayaknife

For my 100 subscriber special I've put together a TFC challenge video. The goal is to get a loaf of bread in the shortest time. Can you beat my time?

In real life I rarely drink alcohol, so it's only fitting that I have trouble holding my liquor in TFC. In episode 13 I build a brewhouse, take a bit of vengeance on those pesky mobs and ponder roof designs:

In episode 12 I finally get myself some decent armour: a shiny green set of bismuth bronze. Now let's see how tough those mobs are!

Episode 11 is the conclusion of Chicken Quest: did I find the foul fowl or did I chicken out? Also: blueprints, our first bronze tool, and animals behaving badly:

In episode 10 I almost make it into the Bronze Age but decide to go on a chicken quest instead:

Episode 9 has now escaped from my computer and into the wilds of YouTube. We must catch it before it begins corrupting our children!

Episode 8 is now up.

In this series I only allow myself to eat food from crops, not animals, in an attempt to focus a bit more on the farming aspect of TFC:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4yTWaMZzTGRzrVQkv7GU_wXCByl3KJ1t

I never understand why people who get something for free, something that they never lifted so much as a finger to contribute to, feel entitled to denigrate those who do.

While it can be fun for a group of players to ferret out an elusive graphite or garnierite deposit on a server, for a single player it quickly becomes an exercise in tedium and boredom. In recognition of this, it would be useful if the rarest ores and minerals were a bit less rare in single player mode.

I just noticed that I never mentioned that it was Dunk who fixed the problem. My role was limited to whining about it to Dunk. :-)

Fantastic!

 

Are the spawns still occurring in newly generated chunks only?  The patch notes only say that spawns are now in line with the climate system instead of vanilla biomes.

Yes, any chunks which have already generated will, alas, remain chickenless.

0.77.8 is available for download. It contains the chicken fix. I've tested it and at last have feathers! The march of civilization has resumed.

If you've been driving yourself crazy trying to find chickens in the recent releases of B77, you can relax because there are none to be found. It's a bug which is being worked on and will likely be fixed soon. Since animal spawns only occur when a chunk is first generated, you might want to hold off on exploring new chunks of your world until the fix has arrived, so as to maximize your chances of finding the fabulous fowl afterward.

If you're taking an extended trip away from your home base, the extra durability of the higher-tier metals may free up valuable inventory space by removing the need to take backup tools.

When I started to make my first copper anvil I tried to shape my unshaped copper on a stone anvil to keep its temperature. This old way of shaping ingots doesn't seem to work at all so I had to reheat all my copper ingots just to weld them. Is there something I'm missing or was that working into ingots been taken out completely?

You no longer need to use an anvil to work a mold of metal into an ingot. Just place the mold in your crafting space and it will give you back an ingot, even if the metal in the mold was still liquid! The price you pay is that the ingot will be cold so you will have to reheat it if you want to work with it in the anvil.

I like using clay blocks because then I can get the clay back later on when I'm able to build a better structure.

But having said that, I'm running 64-bit everything on Linux and I get the same lags as you. I think it's Java doing massive garbage collection but haven't been able to verify that yet.

32-bit Java will run on a 64-bit machine, so make sure that you've got 64-bit Java installed.

The logo box resizes itself as you make the browser window wider or narrower. At least that's how its working for me (Firefox on Linux).

It would be nicer if the logo image scaled to fit the available space.

Line of sight to the sky.

Ah. Too bad. Would have made sense to only allow saplings of a certain type to pop up if there are adult trees of the same type nearby.

Provinces. Heh.

*waves at mayaknife from across the Strait* Fancy a swim?

Alas, I can't swim. If/when the island sinks, I'm doomed.

Hurricane Ridge was one of the more awesome experiences of my life. Fancy a walk?

Actually I think they call them provinces.

Took me a while, but *snrk*.

Sapling mechanics have been changed for Build 77. They will no longer spawn if the temperature is below 20C, and they need line of sight in order to grow

Line of sight to what? A standing tree of that type?

Hoe all the ground or replace it with stone, sand, gravel, planks, etc.

I'm not sure, but it may be that saplings will only appear on grass blocks. If that's the case then you can replace all of the grass blocks with dirt and ring the area with a grass-proof border (hoed ground, stone, etc).